Simone Baptiste - French
Rolf - German - Simone’s Dog
Chuck Naldrett - Canadian - DaveG
Sampson Strong - English - PJ
Leonid Rokossovsky - Russian - Sukh
Rosalyn De Steel - English - Dabe
Milan Zadradnik - Czech - NPC
Richard Bering - English - NPC
Pitik Loshang - Islander - NPC Bar owner
Rubbish Disposal
When I joined the rest by the van I found that two of the enemy Supers had been tied up. The one Rolf had taken out (Mr Duplicator) and the Earth Magic man. Electric girl was dead, apparently from a shot to the head. All the people we had came to rescue were ok so we transported everyone back to the village. Leaving them there we took the two Supers to Milan for him to lock up in his spooky church. I went in to the church/temple first as I had at least some rapport with Milan which put me some considerable distance ahead of the others. Milan showed some distaste for Leonid but luckily Leonid had stayed outside the church, so that helped kept things cool on that front. I handed over our prisoners to Milan and explained their powers. I gave Milan a warning about what Duplicator was capable of as he did not seem to take me seriously, as maybe he still considered me that “mere little girl”. Suddenly tentacles ripped out of the ground through the Duplicator spreading his body parts all round the church, so I guess not. Milan said he could make use of the earth magic Super and then both of them disappeared. We then made our way back to the village with me wondering what Milan meant by “I can make use of him”.
Since it was late afternoon and we were all so very tired we decided to get some food and rest. We asked the villagers to warn us if anybody approached from the Estevelo. I eat well, soaked for an hour in the bath and then crawled into bed and tried to forget all the trauma of what had happened to me that day. That day was the lowest of my life as I had seen me been molested before dying in my own arms. I just kept thinking of what it must have been like for the Simone copy with all my memories, been molested and then finally for it all to end with her feeling her life ebb away with her having no control over anything.
It was very hard to shift those thoughts, to stop empathiseing with her situation but eventually sheer tiredness enabled me to drop off in a restless sleep. Lets hope tomorrow is a better day.
A Relaxed Morning
After a restless night I got up at six in the morning unable to sleep any longer. I just felt I had been put through the emotional wringer, I felt so twisted up inside. Decided to go and see if Pitik was up, so I could have some food and someone to chat to. If I could keep my mind occupied maybe I could stop my mind wandering onto yesterday’s activities. Wandered into the bar area but it was all empty with the stools on the table tops. Since I knew Pitik was relaxed about these things I switched on the coffee percolator behind the bar and started to prepare myself a sandwich. I was munching on this when Pitik arrived in the bar. I chatted to him for some time about anything, other than what had occurred yesterday. This, and the food seemed to settle my stomach down to a more normal level so I felt a bit more relaxed and was able to chat to the others when they rolled in later. Found out from Pitik that Richard was expected later that afternoon so we decided to have a relaxed day while waiting for him. We did ask the villagers to set up watches on the roads into the village to warn of potential trouble while we carried our communicators with us. I took this opportunity to wonder round the village with Rolf, talking to the locals when I met them, with me playing at normal life to keep my mind occupied. Rosalyn and Leonid stayed in the bar while Chuck and Sampson had gone for a walk also.
Visitors
This idyllic morning was brought was to halt by a burst of static from the communicator, then a voice said “column of cars inbound”, someone then asked “from Estevelo?”. The response took me by surprise when they said “No, from the mountains” as I was expecting it to be soldiers from the coast. Time stood still for a little while someone somewhere examined the convoy to see
who it was. I then heard a voice say “It’s ROSS”. I did not hear what else they said, as the fight/flight reflex kicked in with a vengeance. ROSS that bastard who first of all had launched a sexual attack on me and later tried to kill me, his name was enough to send a tremor down my spine. Well I was not going to be attacked by him again if I could help it. I was no longer that same girl from the prison and Rolf was with me now! I positioned myself in a place where I could observe the main square and Pitik’s bar with the jungle to my back.
The convoy pulled to a halt outside the bar, four vehicles in all, with twelve people getting out. The two that I recognised were Ross and his plague friend. I could hear Ross issuing orders as though he owned the place, the arrogant bastard. I had hoped that someone would have killed him by now but it looked like he had built his own gang. They all then walked into the bar leaving no one outside. It was all quiet for a while but I was certainly not going down to investigate. Did see some flickering down by the cars so either Leonid or Chuck was up to something. Eventually trouble started, as I know it would with the sounds of wood been smashed. Then there was a murmur of voices before Leonid shot out of the bar, on his own two feet I would add. Then Ross came out on the bar veranda and started to shout out for one of us to come forward. Chuck stepped forward which I have to say I thought was an insane thing to do since the last time they met Ross had tried to kill Chuck. There was much talk where Ross said he was leading a force of Supers against the International military surrounding this island. They were on their way to clean up Estevelo. He then started to talk about me “Asking where was Simone?” I had to stop myself from running at that point as that was my instinctive reaction! I was not the same girl! I am a future Super hero and I will NOT run from scum! So I stayed to listen to see what else was said. I caught Chuck saying that he did not know where I was and he strongly suspected I would not be showing up, oh that’s so true. In all this conversation I could see there was an undercurrent of hatred from Ross towards us so I was surprised he was so controlled. There was more conversation in which Ross said Richard would be along later. Ross then called the conversation short saying he had to get onto Estevelo to sort out the military there. He called all the other Supers out of the bar and told them to mount up, did I detect special relish in the way he said that? I could not be sure but it would not surprise me. It was at this moment the Supers found out their ignition keys had been taken. Ross demanded to know who had them, so Chuck threw them on the ground before backing away. Ross then sent his drivers forward to retrieve the keys before rolling out of town on the road to Estevelo. Doubt that improved Ross’s feelings for us either.
Visitors Aftermath
After Ross had left, Chuck came out to find me. Once we met up we talked over what had occurred and he tried to persuade me to join the others back at the bar. I was not having anything to do with that as I did not trust Ross and never would. My reading of his motivations still show him being the same low life he always was but been more controlled at the moment ... for some reason. With eleven Supers at his command Ross would be more than capable of coming back into Mweki at any time. In that situation I wanted to be in a place where I had options. I said I would join the rest of them at the bar when I saw Richard arrive.
Time went by until I saw Richard drive in from the mountains on the same road that Ross had arrived on. So off I trotted with Rolf to the bar to meet the others. Once there I found there was a bit of discussion about how Ross was a changed man and was now Ok! WHAT!!! Unlike the old days where I would have kept a low profile I now steamed in saying he was still the same person, i.e. just a petty thug who would attack anyone when he had the advantage. Leonid said he had been down to Estevelo to check out Ross’s story of taking on the soldiers there and that was apparently true. I was so fired up that I told them something that only Richard knew previously, that Ross had sexually assaulted me in prison. There was a flippant comment from someone “maybe he was just been friendly”. I exploded at this point shouting out " its attempted rape when they are holding you down by the shoulders”. Things went very quiet in the bar and conversation stopped before restarting at a low murmur. I caught Richards’s eye and indicated that we needed to talk.
A Friendly Chat
Richard led me into a back room where we could talk with more privacy, but I was still angry so I wonder looking back on it if I managed to keep my voice down. Can not recall the full detail of the conversation now but I know I let off steam about Ross and other peoples attitude re him and what he did. Eventually I calmed down enough to start to talk with less emotion. I did notice that Richard was being very careful to not tip more fuel on the fire and he was very careful about
what words he used. He explained that he had met Ross and “persuaded” him to leave Chuck and me alone. Well that is all very well for Ross but the same rules would not apply to me! I told Richard that the best place for Ross would to be buried under the yard as he could not be trusted. But apparently it was a done deal but Richard said he would try and keep us separated. He then asked how our mission in Estevelo had gone? I was able to tell what we had done in Estevelo in a controlled manner but when I started to talk about our rescue of the low level Supers at the farm my voice started to break up and I broke down in tears. Richard came over and tentatively hugged me while I sobbed out what had happened to the Simone copy with my head on his chest He tried to comfort me in a very English way in a loose hug but I guess only time will heal my wounds.
He then talked about his future plans to distract me from my own thoughts. I think Richard was underestimating the military here. He seemed to think that if we took the island and demonstrated that we were a force to be reckoned with that the world governments would then negotiate with us. All I could think was that this was just painting a great big target on our heads and with large force of Supers on one island what a great target we were. If the English or the Americans did not have the guts to nuke us, the French certainly would! We need to get off the Island! I hope Richard has some super up his sleeve that can shield the whole island like in War of World’s. Richard said he had a mission for us but he would need to talk to the others so we rejoined the others in the bar.
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